A vast sea with secret currents.
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A vast sea with secret currents.
I thought I had it beat. I thought it was gone for good. Why won’t it stay gone?
On feeling more hopeful, more victorious, more triumphant than what it wants to allow you.
One day they won’t be here
One day they won’t stay anymore
A stream of consciousness response to a powerful empathetic connection with a dear friend and their fear.
Separate lives
Separate experiences
Briefly
Somehow
Empathy connects
…
He gives me so many things, least of all the homemade bread.
Would that I could grant a wish
To allow him to run back.
For a dear friend, with love.
I love the savage words,
The biting, cutting lines and brutal phrases…
Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting… why?
Smaller and smaller and smaller and shrinking and never quite right and shrinking and screaming unheard and…